GLib

GLib is a library containing many useful C routines for things such as trees, hashes, and lists. GLib was previously distributed with the GTK toolkit, but has been split off as of the developers' version 1.1.0.

Recent releases

Release Notes: GLib can now be built with the bionic C library. GIcon can now be serialized to a GVariant. GApplication gained a busy state, for signaling this to a desktop. Support was added for explicitly canceling a gobject property binding. Performance improvements were made for signal argument handling. Further improvements and various bug fixes were made.

Release Notes: This stable release finalizes the changes from the 2.35 development series. Signal handlers connected with g_signal_connect_object() are now automatically disconnected on target object destruction. GIO now has kqueue support for GFileMonitor (BSDs and Mac OS). UNIX signal sources now allow watching SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2. In g_get_home_dir(), the $HOME variable is no longer ignored, and taken into consideration in favor of GECOS entries. GUnixFdSource was added as a new method to add file descriptors to the main loop. Further new APIs were added. Many bugs were fixed.